Here is a list of recent casting news straight out of Hollywood via the trades and the Web:

• Kirsten Prout from "Kyle XY" and "Elektra" is joining Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in David Slade's "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," which is shooting now. E! reports she will play Lucy, a vampire gal who teams up with Maria, played by Catalina Sandino Moreno.

• Evan Rachel Wood is the latest to join James McAvoy, Robin Wright Penn and Justin Long in Robert Redford's "The Conspirator," a drama about Mary Surratt, the only woman in a group charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln.Wood's recent credits include "Whatever Works" and "The Wrestler." (THR)

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Jaime King has signed on and Shawn Ashmore, Briana Evigan, Alexa Vega and Matt O'Leary are in negotiations to star in Darren Lynn Bousman's upcoming horror remake "Mother's Day."

In the new version of Charles Kaufman's 1980 horror classic, a crazy family returns to their old house to terrorize the new owners and their guests. The Hollywood Reporter says King will play the woman of the house. Ashmore and Evigan would be portraying guests. O'Leary plays one of the terrorizers.

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